Doorpost

Object Number:

29-58-159B

Current Location:

Collections storage

Provenience:

New Zealand

Section:

Oceanian

Materials:

WoodShell

Credit Line:

Received from various sources, pre-1929

Description

Carved hard balck wood. Each vertical section is ornamented with scrolls and grotesque figures in low relief with, on the inner side, a vertical panel, each of four bird-headed human figures in the round. The central figure in the lintel is a grotest human figure with on each side of it scrolls and grotesgque human and animal figures. Compare the fragment of a lintel P 3222.